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A rickety elevator up to the venue. A tableau of models posed as garden statues on a manicured green, some of them wilting from leg cramps due to a show delay. All manner of madcap hats, including one shaped like a shuttlecock and another like a sail. The setup for the Thom Browne show Monday was awash in the kind of fashion week clichés the world loves to laugh at. But as usual, there was method to the designer's madness. The scene: When the show began, so did the story -- a narrated tale of six sisters and their fashion preferences (on Mondays, they start out in tailoring; by the weekends, they prefer to be naked.) Through the garden, models strolled in Browne's...

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The announcement said that in his new post, Posen will "direct the current Brooks Brothers design...

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For that the puckered fabric can thank Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), who last month filed a proclamation with the House of Representatives that read, in part:
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"Overall, there's a very happy look to the makeup, with pops of...

The fashion world famously embraced President Obama during his run for a second term. So much so that speculation reached a fever pitch that Vogue's Anna Wintour was to be rewarded with an ambassadorship.
Well, Obama won -- Wintour hasn't been named an...

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"Dries Van Noten: Inspirations," open March 1 to...

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Marc by Marc Jacobs
Just like that, Marc by Marc Jacobs is cool again.
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